Going up, Going down, Please stay clear of the door: Elisha Otis born August 3rd 1811


Elisha Otis, in full Elisha Graves Otis, (born August 3, 1811, Halifax, Vermont), American inventor of the safety elevator.  The Bergen bed frame  company sent him to Yonkers, New York, in 1852 to run a new factory and to install its equipment. There he planned and installed what he called the “safety hoist,” the first elevator fortified with an automatic safety device to stop it from falling if the lifting chain or rope broke.
